- Date
- June 17, 2000, 10:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Turner, ME
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2063NCessna 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 17, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20000617039999A
- Case key
- 49459
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control after landing. A factor in this accident was the high grass along the runway edge which disguised an embankment.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
After landing on a grass strip, the airplane drifted to the left, into some high grass which was covering an embankment. The airplane went over the embankment and nosed over. The pilot estimated that the grass strip was about 1,800 feet long, and 35 feet wide, and stated he had landed on the strip at other times prior to the accident. He did not report any mechanical malfunctions of the airplane. The pilot reported 450 hours of total flight experience, of which, 350 hours were in make and model.
Factual narrative
On June 17, 2000, about 1030 Eastern Daylight Time, a Cessna 140, N2063N, was substantially damaged while landing at the Twitchell Airport (3B5), Turner, Maine. The certificated private pilot was not injured and a passenger sustained minor injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the flight that departed the Limington-Harmon Airport, Limington, Maine. The personal flight was conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
According to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspector, the airplane landed in a northwest direction, on a grass strip near the seaplane base at 3B5. During the landing roll, the airplane drifted to the left into some high grass which was covering an embankment. The airplane went over the embankment and nosed over.
The pilot estimated that the grass strip was about 1,800 feet long, and 35 feet wide, and he had landed on the strip at other times prior to the accident. He did not report any mechanical malfunctions of the airplane.
The pilot reported 450 hours of total flight experience, of which, 350 hours were in make and model.
Winds reported at an airport about 10 miles south-southwest of the accident site, at 1035, were from 180 degrees at 9 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2063N
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12299
- Airframe hours
- 1,674
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Perry B. Fielding
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 1999 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- 63B · Limington, ME
- Destination
- 3B5
- Airport
- 3B5 · Twitchell, runway 28, 1,800 × 35 ft, grass/turf
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 450 total · 350 in this make and model · 410 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LEW, 10 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.